An Old Friend

Its Friday afternoon here.
I'm checking the forums I participate in and will be going to the store in a bit to do a bit of grocery shopping.
Its the last weekend of Cruisin' The Coast | America's Largest Block Party so I will probably stop by and walk thru town to look at some cars.
Later on I'll watch some movies.
I have some beef short ribs thawing in the fridge, might fire up the grill if I'm feeling up to it. If not I'll broil them in the oven.

Code Monkey

It's Friday afternoon... I'm trying to do some crash testing because the guys in India have decided to make a change to a production web service without much advance notice. Friday afternoons are supposed to be relaxed and quiet around here. Aaargggh.

What am I up to now? 5-11 lol! I'm working on one of my bikes, and later on my 944 turbo Porsche, time for new plugs and wires, later on ill pluck some strings on my electric guitar, call my buddy in Chicago to see how he and his girlfriend are doing, ill call my brother this weekend and find out how his band is doing and my nephew is doing in high school. I cant have my nails done because if I was a girly girl my biker and mechanic bros would say I make a ugly woman! haaaaaa haaaa haaawwww

LOL! Other than that, ill probably catch up on some admin work for my job. Cool thread Nix!

I was expecting the beans as part of the answer but didn't realize that onions were that bad. If I ever do a low-carb diet (and, honestly, I should be on some kind of diet) I could likely not miss the beans but cutting out onions would be a lot harder for me.

Personally I love all kinds of chili; typically in our family we'd do the multiple beans version when making it from scratch but when going out to to eat I'll try anybody's chili at least once. These days I don't enjoy spicy chili like I used to and like more beef, whether ground or cubed steak, instead.

Code Monkey

Catching up to stuff on my DVR. I've got vacation time to burn off at work so I took this upcoming week off. My plans for the next several days are to clean the house, watch TV, play with the dogs, and try to look busy so Mrs. Kevin doesn't add stuff to my list "while I'm home".

An Old Friend

I make gator chili that's pretty good but its cajun so you might not like it Kevin.
The gator meat I buy is cajun spiced, not sure if you can get it regular?

There are chili cook-offs in the different communities around here in Sept/Oct.
There's a few different categories
Regular
Spicy Hot
Cajun

Then there's Beans & no Beans.
Most chili diehards will tell you if it has beans it isn...ain't chili.
I like beans in my chili.

I do make a hamburger stew that has no beans, its really good.
Gunna make some for Sunday so I have leftovers.
It does have those 'new' potatoes in the can (I use the whole ones).
Instead of red sauce its made with au jus sauce.
Has mushrooms, onions, red & yellow peppers, white sweet corn and sometimes I add wax beans (if I have them). If I have those mini corn cobs I use those instead of the white sweet corn.

When I make hamburger stew I always make homemade bread or biscuits.
I have some frozen bread dough so tomorrow it will be bread.